<![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> Check out the Marshall half-stack and Stratocaster in the background of the photo. Reminds me of Caspar Broetzmann, whose music (played on that exact gear) would make a perfect soundtrack for movies like The Ring. The music alone is scarier than most scary movies.

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noncornbatant

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> You know, I thought the Miike version of One Missed Called sucked quite hard on its own, so I'm not particularly upset that they've remade it.

Oh, and I agree with @annalee, the US Ring is not bad.

However, I will never forgive the remake of Dark Water because the original rocked scary dead little girl goodness like mad! It's got - uh - pipes, so I'm going to go ahead and call it steampunk hence obviously scifi.

Incidentally, how about the horror thematic in Sunshine?

teruma

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> I've heard that haunted-tech J-horror is less about technophobia, and more about the fear of disease. In Ringu or the original Missed Call series, the tech is just a vehicle for a fatal virus, of sorts. The horror is in watching the infection spread.

Miike's Missed Call was better than expected.
I'll assume the remake's garbage.

k_shigure

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> What was that movie, with the like posessed cars, trying to kill people?

paintedglasshouse

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> @dagzine: Haven't seen the Miike version of One Missed Call, though I gotta say I thought the US version of The Ring actually did a great job translating the Japanese horror into a US context.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> oh newitz please tell me youve seen the miike version of this stinker, one missed call.

i think you've got a great sci-fi thing going simply comparing what the asian filmmakers did with the ideas and how the american filmmakers changed the narrative.

dagzine

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> @DeathbyTheremin: Agreed, I stumbled across their stuff on Netflix. Well worth worth watching.

mydogisdexter

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> virtuosity had absolutely nothing to do with the interwebz or any of it's constituent tubes.

Now, if your going to wax intellectual about the subject...

putch

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> HAL was not evil or mad, merely broken. We should try to avoid anthropomorphizing machines: they really, really hate it.

Bob Bruhin

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> Actually, most of these would be considered Science Fantasy. To be truly Sci-Fi, there has to be a technical explanation on how it happens.

Maybe io9 would be a good place to have a list of SF sub-genres, being that this is looking to be the end-all be-all of Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror news and views.

WickedGlee

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> @tetracycloide: Yeah, not so much into bloody dudes. More the super-buff bald guys in their underwear.

@geekgrrl: Tee hee.

TruculentandUnreliable

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> @annalee:

That Tesseracting robot in the basement was one of the most wild ideas I've ever seen in robotics. Really an underdog of a movie.

FrankenPC

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> @DeathbyTheremin: oh dear god, you had to go there, didn't you? my bejeezus has just left me, and it didn't leave a forwarding address.

geekgrrl

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> @TruculentandUnreliable: yeah i was more or less told that about romper stomper as well as the one movie with brad pit where he gets the shit beat out of him over some chic, spy game i think it was. apparently bloody hot guy does it for some girls.

tetracycloide

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> If scary stuff is up your aisle, go and have a look at utterly brilliant video director Chris Cunningham's work with Aphex Twin and Squarepusher. Enough bio/tech-horror to go around for everyone.

DeathbyTheremin

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> the movie AI was scary.

Oh wait, I confused the word scary with long and boring.

AmericanSplendor is politically frustrated

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> @tetracycloide: Unfortunately, he is buff and hot as hell in Romper Stomper (especially in his underwear). You just have to overlook the fact that he's, like, a Nazi. Which was hard for me to do.

I LOVE science fiction/horror movies. I am not ashamed to say that The Ring scared the bejesus out of me and I had to cover up my TV with a blanket for a week. Pulse was terrible, but the original Japanese version is supposed to be good. I'm sure there's a read of this blog out there that is into Japanese horror cinema...was it?

TruculentandUnreliable

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> The difference between a so-advanced-it-might-as-well-be-magic... AI like HAL and a special-mental-powers-beyond-the-grave... mutant girl is that HAL is not magic in the universe in which that story takes place and mutant girl is. Sci-fi, at least as I would define the genre, is about fictional science. There is no fictional science in the ring or one missed call only fictional paranormal events.

tetracycloide

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> @FrankenPC: Demon Seed! I have that on VHS. Prometheus the AI downloads himself into a home security system and forces uppity lady Julie Christie to become his barefoot-and-pregnant housewife! OMG what a movie. "I can give you pleasure like a man would."

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> Yes, yes... but where does Lawnmower Man come into all of this? Also, hasn't Doctor Who now firmly established that any "supernatural" phenomena are simply stranded aliens from dimension Q trying to get back to their home world?

IntoAshes

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> @NefariousNewt:

Bio-Sci-Fi

FrankenPC

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> I think it's entirely possible to call these movies sci-fi despite the ghost elements, as there's no reason to believe there couldn't be a physical explanation for the existence of ghosts. Not to mention, horror is not mutually exclusive of technology. Frankenstein is the best example of the sci-fi/horror melding.

NefariousNewt

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> @annalee: the closest i've come to that is dating a girl that was turned on by the serial killer version of russell crowe which is, and i hope you'll take my word on this one, nothing ot be jealous of.

tetracycloide

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> Another oldy but goody: Demon Seed. Not haunted, but another AI gone wrong plot. Freaky movie. I've only been able to find that one in VHS format though.

FrankenPC

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> @tetracycloide: Wow does your dating career have anything to do with a virtual serial killer version of Russell Crowe? Because then I'm jealous.

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls]]> my dating career has something in common with my cell phone and my tv then...

tetracycloide

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